2011/8/4 Nick Kossifidis <mickfl...@gmail.com>: > 2011/8/3 Pavel Roskin <pro...@gnu.org>: >> On 08/03/2011 08:42 AM, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote: >>> >>> Yes I have tried this. It still is hardware blocked: >>> >>> Antonis. >>> >>> # rfkill list >>> 0: phy0: Wireless LAN >>> Soft blocked: no >>> Hard blocked: yes >>> # rfkill unblock all >>> # rfkill list >>> 0: phy0: Wireless LAN >>> Soft blocked: no >>> Hard blocked: yes >> >> Actually, I have one card that works with rfkill disabled, but doesn't >> work with rfkill enabled. Just like your case, the device is "hard >> blocked". It is a miniPCI card (Valemount KXS30SG) installed in a >> Mikrotik RB-14 adapter. The problem with that adapter is that it >> signals to the cards the WiFi should be disabled. This can be fixed by >> applying an isolating cover on the pin 13: >> >> https://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/MiniPCI >> >> Obviously, something is wrong with ath5k. If the device is "hard >> blocked", how come it can be enabled by disabling "rfkill"? We need to >> change the logic here. If the pin 13 can be overridden, it should be >> treated like an input device, not as a hardware block. >> > > They have probably connected the GPIO pins in a different way on the > laptop's side so ath5k might think that LED pin is RFKIL and RFKIL is > LED or something like that. Normaly the rfkill pin and polarity are > stored on card's EEPROM but if you put your card on a laptop with > different settings the card's vendor wouldn't know what to put there. > We have something for LEDS already in led.c, we might have to > introduce a similar table for RFKill. Or maybe a module > parameter/debugfs entry to disable rfkill on devices with problems. > > Anyway the fast solution is just to skip RFKill check, go to > drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/rfkill.c and make ath5k_is_rfkill_set > always return 0. If you have time to debug it check out the values for > rfkill polarity and pin number and try tweaking them. > > Your laptop doesn't have a hw rfkill switch but it might have a "bios" > one, normaly there should be an fn+<some function key> to > enable/disable wifi, check it out. In some cases this might actually > be a hw switch. >
BTW the above was a reply to Antonis :P -- GPG ID: 0xD21DB2DB As you read this post global entropy rises. Have Fun ;-) Nick _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
